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At 18:06 6/14/2004, Paul Bennett wrote:
>> Melroch 'Aestan wrote:
>>> At 14:37 6/10/2004, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
>>>> Does anyone happen to know the origin of Latin <sanguis>, <sanguin>-
>>>> ("blood"). I can't find a PIE source. Is it thought to be Etruscan?
>>>> Unknown? Surely its not connected with Greek <haima>?
>>>
>>> Hittite _e-es-har_ gen. _(e-)es-ha-na-as_ 'blood' is
>>> a possible though unlikely cognate. There are also
>>> Vedic _as,rk_ gen. _asnas_ and Greek _ear_.
>>
>> Hmmm, to me those look like they come from a completely different root,
>> though I'm not sure what its hypothetical PIE form might be ... *esr or
>> something.
>
>I'd say *esAr, myself, but I too am guessing. It doesn't *look* like a PIE
>root, however, which is actually quite a big mark against it in my book.
>Maybe Ees-Ar is more plausible? The two roots mean "to be fitted
>together", which might or might not be suitable sources for semantic drift.
The root was brobably *Hes, plus a suffix varying between *-ar and *-an
within the same paradigm (plus yet another *-k suffix in the nominative
in Vedic), so the whole word should be written *Hes-ar/an-.
_Sanguis_ is from a compound *Hs-an-gwin, which received a nominative -s
becoming regularly _san-gwi:s_ -- the -n- disappeared before the _s_
with compensatory lengthening of the _i_.
/BP 8^)
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